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A Tale of Two Studies: Features of Friendships and Awareness of Fairness

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This chapter illustrates the previous chapter’s toolkit, pupil consultation and pupil voice through two studies that investigate features of friendships and awareness of fairness. Specifically, two friendship studies are described as conducted by visiting researchers and also by schools themselves. The fairness research is contextualised with literature that links morality with empathy as well as the implications for studying unfairness in education. The research probed for incidents, both experienced and observed, that pupils considered to be unfair, as well as their responses to them, and has implications for pupils’ abilities to share in the emotional experiences of their learning.

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Demetriou, H. (2018). A Tale of Two Studies: Features of Friendships and Awareness of Fairness. In: Empathy, Emotion and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54844-3_7

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